The Price of a Paycheck
A man wakes up before dawn, dresses in the dark, and walks out into the cold. He stands in the pale light of a bus stop or…
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The New Dharma Bums: Time, Mind, and the Last American Rebellion
So there they were again—ghosts of Neal and Allen and Jack—beat-eyed and barefoot in the halls of a digital inferno, walking soft along the edge of a…
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The Right Kind of Mistakes
You sit at the bar and watch the man at the other end. He is old. He drinks slowly. He does not look at anyone when he…
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The Rational Light of Cooperation
There are truths that lie so close to the heart of human experience that we pass them by daily without recognition. We step over them as one…
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The World as We Have Always Known it – Ends with a Whimper
The bugs are gone. I noticed it years ago when I drove west through Kansas and never once had to smear a moth from my windshield. It…
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Mass Society – How Will it Impact Humanity?
For most of human history, society has been an intricate mosaic of distinct communities—villages, towns, religious congregations, and localized cultures—that functioned as semi-autonomous entities. Each possessed its…
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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
There is a question we ask almost every child. We pose it lightly, with a smile, often in moments of calm or celebration, as if inviting them…
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The Company Store Never Closed
It’s easy to forget that America once ran on company stores and scrip. Coal miners in Appalachia were paid in vouchers redeemable only at their employer’s shop,…
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Excuse Me, Are You Leaving or Moving In?
I was sitting in my car in a Target parking lot, watching a young woman do everything except leave. She had entered the car a full five…
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The Mythology of the Economy and the Enslavement of the Soul
There is a strange piety that governs the modern world, a religion that no one names but that commands greater obedience than any god ever known to…